Opinion Pieces
Four key reasons why your investments aren’t paying back as planned
Physical asset investments underperform massively over their lives – we see it time and again and have coined the phrase CapWaste® in response. We estimate that CapWaste® typically ranges between...
How spending 20% less on your next CapEx project could reduce OpEx by 40%
There are multiple reasons why CapEx investment in physical assets, almost without exception, fail to perform or pay back as projected. One is that complexity is a killer – by simplifying design,...
3 questions CEOs should always ask before signing off on a CapEx proposal
If you have a CapEx approval request in front of you, chances are it’s full of ‘pros’ and not many ‘cons’, or at least not the real ‘cons’. The ‘cons’ you really need to understand...
3 Key Scenarios that most CapEx proposals don’t account for
CapEx proposals should be designed to hit a moving, unexpected, unpredictable and unknown target. That’s a big ask given the CapEx brief was most likely built on some specific assumptions about...
You might regret your current capital investment decisions in 5 years’ time – 3 Red Flags
How can you be confident that when you look back in 5 years’ time, the CapEx decisions you make today will still look like the right choices? CapEx decisions aren’t only judged by financial...
5 Red Flags your CapEx Proposal isn’t the best option
Red Flag 1 : The functional requirements are stated as a set of discrete, specific target outcomes In the real world, very little is certain. The only certainty is that future events will change your...
Missing The Wood For The Trees: Why Businesses Lose Sight Of Value
What “Value” means to businesses, and how Whole Life Value can open up unseen opportunities to find it. In our last blog piece, we discussed Whole Life Value, and how it can be used to derive...
Easter 2021 – Chocolate Factory
This Easter, we’re thinking about the ending to the Roald Dahl’s classic, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – and where it might have gone next. At the end of the book, Charlie has recently...